Business Intelligence Software

WHITE PAPER: BI capabilities are becoming a must-have for independent software vendors. But customers and prospects are no longer satisfied with basic home-built solutions and offerings from legacy vendors.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper dispels some myths about BI in smaller companies and outlines the main options at your disposal.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Executives recognize that new analytics capabilities, coupled with advanced business process management, signal a major opportunity to create business advantage. Those who have the vision to apply new approaches are building intelligent enterprises positioned to thrive.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Companies that use IBM Cognos software are able to improve productivity, reduce or avoid headcount, reduce financing costs, and increase profitability. These benefits are achieved because when employees can rapidly access and analyze data in consistent ways, they are better able to make business changes that both lower costs and increase revenues.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Professional report authors need a single reporting solution that draws data from a variety of sources and enables wide collaboration yet delivers the resulting information at business speed. IBM Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence includes Web-based reporting tools that support collaboration and good decision making.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The reasons driving standardization in BI and reporting are core to every company—cutting costs, boosting revenue, and increasing profits. IBM Cognos 8 BI lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Executives at small and midsize companies are making critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them. This information can come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the organization.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Organizations are facing growing business challenges as a result of intensifying market trends. In response, THINKstrategies is finding a growing number of organizations of all sizes are investigating and adopting on-demand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) alternatives to traditional, on-premise systems to meet their changing business needs.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes ways in which organizations can use Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to save time and money.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: SQL Server is the relational database used for storing all content, data, and configuration information used by Office SharePoint Server 2007. Protecting SharePoint requires protecting each of the three architectural tiers. This whitepaper will discuss the need to protect all three tiers of SharePoint's implementation architecture.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper identifies the many challenges companies face when implementing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in corporate reporting and explores tightly integrated solutions that together centrally manage data and metadata on a unified platform--the first step in implementing a complete performance management solution.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Today the use of balanced scorecards for performance management has become a hallmark of a well-run company. This paper will provide guiding principles to help your company's overall performance.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about Oracle’s comprehensive GRC platform and how leading enterprises are turning to Oracle’s new platform to meet the demands of increasingly challenging regulatory mandates while continuing to innovate and grow their business.

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document presents a series of business challenges, why organizations faced them, and how these problems were solved through the use of Business Intelligence best practices.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Now in its eighth year of publication, The BI Survey by Nigel Pendse is an annual report based on the world's largest independent survey of Business Intelligence and Performance Management users.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is intended for IT managers, project leads, and developers who must implement open source business intelligence (BI) to support the ever growing business user needs. You will learn how to add new reporting features and functions to your applications without any scalability issues and more.

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT organizations are increasingly looking at business intelligence appliances to increase “in the moment” insight and business agility without disrupting current operations.

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 | Published: 25 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: HP and VMware help you change the economics of IT by creating a business-ready infrastructure based on three pillars: standardize, optimize, and automate.

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Organizations want and need better access to information to make smarter, faster decisions in response to changing circumstances or events. Reporting is one form of business intelligence that has become business-critical. Sybase IQ infuses organizations with fast, flexible access to information.

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 07 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the challenges faced by organizations today regarding their BI, data integration, and data warehousing environments, why traditional solutions fall short, and the rise of upstart open source companies. Read on to learn more about open source BI, data integration, and data warehousing solutions.

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 | Published: 28 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this report on an EIU survey of 320 executives. Focusing on North America case studies and issues, the report reviews the growing importance of sustainability strategies and management and the challenges included.

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 | Published: 21 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper investigates various levels of business intelligence, discusses the challenges organizations face with today's typical BI deployments, and highlights how many high-growth companies have implemented strategic, analytical, and operational initiatives to work seamlessly together to enhance performance and boost competitive advantage.

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 22 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper gives an overview of the advantages of implementing business intelligence (BI) standards. Learn how successful organizations have standardized on, and benefited from BI solutions from SAP - and why you should join them.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: In today's economic downturn, organizations are looking for ways to improve the way they do business, to keep ahead of the competition, and to grow revenue. With reduced funding for new initiatives, it can be difficult to meet these objectives. Read on to learn how expanding your business intelligence with predictive analysis can help.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009